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In external astronomy we observe the sun, the planets, the fixed stars, the comets; they seem to pass through space as some kind of objective bodies. We seek their laws of motion. There is nothing there of man. Read my “Occult Science” and bring before your mind the description given there of world evolution. Directly you read of Old Saturn you are reading nothing described by modern astronomy, but at once you read of what appears as the first rudiments of the human being. In the description of Saturn is contained all that existed as the first rudiments of humanity during the Saturn evolution. With the history of world evolution you follow at the same time the whole of human evolution. Nowhere do you find there a world devoid of man. 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Null wird der Mensch sich selber nicht sein, wenn er zu einer wirklichen Selbsterkenntnis gelangt; denn er wird dann wissen, wie sich in dem, was innerhalb seiner Haut ist, das ganze Weltengebäude ein Abbild schafft, wie jeder Mensch ein Ergebnis der ganzen Welt in sich trägt innerhalb seiner Haut. Im sozialen Leben wird der Impuls der Freiheit dadurch zum Äquilibrium hingetragen, daß wir kennenlernen dasjenige, was als Geistiges der Welt zugrunde liegt, daß wir hinauskommen über die bloße materielle Weltenbetrachtung, die ja gerade das ist, was charakteristisch geworden ist für die Erkenntnisentwickelung der letzten Jahrhunderte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":115,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-01-30/p026"},{"locus":"GA 203/1921-01-30/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Den Menschen hat man verloren. Die äußere Welt ist menschenleer geworden. 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Das was Sie selber sind, finden Sie von Stufengang zu Stufengang in der Weltentwickelung selber geschildert.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/203/1921-01-30/p027"},{"locus":"GA 203/1921-01-30/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Was ist die Folge? Wenn Sie dasjenige, was Ihnen die moderne Wissenschaft gibt von irgendwelchen alten Nebelzuständen, die sich ballen und so weiter, aus denen dann unsere jetzige Welt entstanden sein soll, in der aber der Mensch nicht gefunden werden kann, durchgehen, haben Sie in Wirklichkeit nichts Menschliches, das bleibt alles bloß intellektualistisch. Da erfahren Sie etwas, was Ihren Kopf interessieren kann, aber es ergreift nicht Ihren ganzen Menschen. Ihr ganzer Mensch kann nur ergriffen werden von einer Erkenntnis, die diesen ganzen Menschen schon enthält. 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Aber lassen Sie das sich hineinergießen in die Menschen der heutigen Zeit, denen das fehlt, lassen Sie die Menschen erfüllt sein von diesem Bewußtsein der Zugehörigkeit zu der ganzen Welt, dann werden jene sozialen Stimmungen entstehen können, die die Menschheit weiterführen können. — Währenddem das, was heraufgekommen ist, was ja allerdings zu der Forderung der Freiheit führen konnte, aber dem Menschen kein Verantwortungsgefühl gibt, die Menschen nur dazu gebracht hat, jenes Chaos herbeizuführen, in dem wir eben jetzt darinnenleben. Die Luziferisierung kann nur verhindert werden dadurch, daß die Menschen ihre Stellung im Weltenall erkennen, daß sie nicht nur das Physische des Weltenalls, das sinnlich Gegebene des Weltenalls, sondern das Geistige des Weltenalls durchschauen, sich als Geist im Geist des Weltenalls fühlen. 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